Re: Bug#325600: Patch for buggy pthreads on stable found

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Uwe Schindler a écrit :
> Hi again,
> 
>> I forgot to mention:
>>
>> Someone could try to enable the test suite on package build again. Now the
>> linuxthreads testcases should pass...
>>
>> This can be enabled by changing debian/sysdeps/alpha.mk !
>>
>> I will not do this as the package build takes too long on my machine and I
>> do not want wait 3.5 hours again and then 5 hours for the tests to
>> complete.
> 
> The tests seem to run now, no more failures in (I haven't tested this
> extensive, I only ran "make -C build-tree/alpha-libc/ -k check"):
> 
> linuxthreads/ex7,ex9,ex10,ex18
> 
> Because of that this can be also removed from debian/sysdeps/alpha.mk:
> 
> # disabled because alpha linuxthreads ex7, ex9, ex10, ex18 stopps eternally
> # even if TIMEOUTSCALE is set - SIGALRM from the program is just ignored.
> RUN_TESTSUITE = no
> 

Thanks for the test. Unfortunately, reenabling the testsuite in a stable
upload gives too much risk of a failed build. Therefore I prefer to
leave it as now.

Note that test testsuite is enabled again in unstable (NPTL version).

Bye,
Aurelien

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